Practice areas: Board Governance; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Executive Coaching; Executive Transition and Succession Planning; Leadership Development; Mergers; Acquisitions; Strategic Partnerships; Organizational Design and Structure; Strategic Planning; Team coaching; Change management; Organizational effectiveness assessment; Virtual Team Leadership; Gender and leadership

Experience: Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Arts, culture, humanities; Children and youth services; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Education, academia, research; science, technology; Environment; Government, politics; Professional association or network; Religious or spiritual; Women

Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken has worked on (inter)national nonprofit and philanthropy issues for 30 years, as a speaker, consultant, coach, team coach, facilitator and author. Her work focuses on leadership development, team coaching, change management, board development and organizational culture.    

While her practitioner background initially was grounded in the international development sector (World Bank, United Nations, think tanks, and nonprofits), her subsequent research, leadership development, team coaching and change management work have focused on cross-sectoral US and Central New York based nonprofits and philanthropic organizations as well. She is co-author of the book ‘Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational NGOs’ and host of the podcast NGO Soul+Strategy. Tosca is a Core Practitioner at the globally renowned team coaching company Corentus.  Corentus was one of the pioneers that developed the field of team coaching, some 25 years ago. Tosca is also a Nonprofit Lifecycle certified consultant. 

The name of Tosca’s own consulting practice, Five Oaks Consulting, is a translation of her difficult-to- pronounce Dutch last name. She has lived with her family in Central Upstate New York for 20+ years; Tosca is a dual citizen of the US and the Netherlands.

Certifications: Advanced Level Team Coaching; Change Management

Networks/ Affinity Groups: InterAction; Rotary; National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers

Languages: Dutch